jeff tweets in to say st. petersburg would be a great trip. i always wanted to see the gold room. gene, though, is more interested in culinary delights. he says food and wine, travel to brazil, yucatan, mexico, chile and france. if you want to join in on the conversation, e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet us, @cnbcwex. >> the food always tests better if you're eating it in a local original place. >> it also doesn't have calories if you do it that way. >> no, it doesn't count. sitting in tuscany enjoying an italian dish, that might be on my list. speaking of italian, we had an auction that was very successful earlier and it was the last auction that we saw for the year. they've sold a large amount of bills across the board. the ten-year italian paper now yielding 4.5%. so we've seen more buying into the italian ten-year paper right now. again, we're heading into a year where we have the general elections taking place in italy. some are saying if berlusconi's party gets more traction, we could be looking at yields heading north once again in italy. the 5s, the 3s and the 2s all b